If they’re working on a problem that can be broken into multiple loosely-coupled parts, or that requires exploring a very large conceptual space.

“The bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the customary canine culprit.

I have sensors that let me know when the outdoor temperature and humidity are both better than indoors so I can open the windows. Typically that’s an hour or two a day in the winter when the weather is nice, and most of the day in the summer.

I suspect that if Gen Z designed their own cognitive tests, their tests would determine that we older generations were less cognitively capable than them.

The reality is that every generation adapts in different ways to fit their own cognitive circumstances, and one generation’s metric is at best an imperfect match for another—“cognitive capacity” can’t be objectively measured.

Cats and similar animals are adapted to specific environmental niches, but humans are generalists. One of the drawbacks of being generalists is that we’re not specialized enough to fully subsist on any single food source.

When the potential long-term impact of the events keeps increasing, but the actual long-term impact keeps decreasing.